Sacred Heart Parish, Lafayette Avenue, Palmerton, celebrates weekend Mass at 5 p.m. on Saturday and 9:30 a.m. Sunday, following all Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Allentown Diocesan directives during the current green phase of COVID-19. All returning worshippers are asked to call the Rectory Office at 610-826-2335 indicating the Mass time and how many will be attending. Daily Mass, Monday through Friday, is celebrated at noon.

The church remains open after daily Mass until 3 p.m. for private prayer. Sunday 9:30 a.m. Mass is livestreamed on Facebook for all who are unable to join us in person.

Seating capacity continues to be limited to 160 worshippers at each Mass. Wearing a facial mask and safe distancing is required. The sacrament of Confession continues to be offered by appointment only.

Please call the rectory office to schedule. All other parish and diocesan news can be found on the parish webpage at: www.shcpalmerton.org.

This Sunday is the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time and the Readings remind us to render to God fitting praise and service, and in turn God’s word to us is a matter of power and strength to be lived with conviction of heart.

This Tuesday, Bishop Schlert will visit our parish and confer the Sacrament of Confirmation upon 32 eighth-graders. Your prayers are requested for these confirmands as they complete their full initiation into the Catholic Faith.

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults has begun, and candidate and team will be meeting at 1 p.m. in the Parish Center every Monday. On Wednesday at 1 p.m. the staff will gather with Father Bill for their monthly meeting. Saturday morning from 9 to 11 a.m. Sacred Heart Men of Good News will meet in the Parish Center.

The Parish Mass Book is now open for 2021 as well as scheduling candle and flower memorials.

Stop by the rectory during office hours to schedule your dates. Also, Sweepstake returns and All Soul’s intentions can be placed in any of the offertory receptacles.

A special Shrine of Remembrance will be in church throughout November, and any parishioner who lost a loved one since Oct. 31, 2019, till the present is invited to submit a photo (no larger than 8½ by 11) for this Shrine of Remembrance by Oct. 28.

Father Bill continues to ask for prayers, through the intercession of Father Walter Ciszek, whose cause for canonization to Sainthood is under study, that God will bless us with a cure for COVID-19 and restore the physical, spiritual, emotional and financial health to our global family.